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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bitter Grounds, and Other People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator's passenger ask him to go back to the hotel?
(a) He forgot his presentation notes for his paper.
(b) He forgot his wallet.
(c) He is sick of his company.
(d) He accidentally brought his room key with him.

2. To whom are the detective and the narrator taken to see after they have looked at the crime scene?
(a) The German ambassador.
(b) Queen Victoria.
(c) The police.
(d) The resistance.

3. Why did she come to this house instead?
(a) The coach driver pushed her from the coach in the woods and drove away without her.
(b) She was sent a mysterious letter about her birthright, so decided to stop here on the way.
(c) She was thrown out of Lord Falconmere's house and had nowhere else to go.
(d) She lost her way and wandered in the woods, eventually seeing the house.

4. What do the boys dare the narrator to do?
(a) Knock on the playhouse door.
(b) Go inside the playhouse.
(c) Look inside the window of the playhouse.
(d) Burn the playhouse down.

5. What is the first story about?
(a) A chef who changes a customer's order to suit the wine, but the customer ends up having an allergy to the food.
(b) A woman who falls in love with a man at an airport by looking at the x-ray of his luggage.
(c) A boy who plays a cello very badly, and one day manages to inexplicably play fantastic music on it, but breaks it the next day and can never play it properly again.
(d) A little boy who is dared by some other boys to knock on the door of a strange playhouse. The playhouse traps the other boys and they are never seen again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can the narrator not return to fairyland?

2. Who suggests that the young man should try writing fantasy instead?

3. In October's story, who first nicknames the boy Runt, and why?

4. Why does August stop the story before the storyteller can finish?

5. In The Faery Reel, what does the narrator say the 'brown boys' will do with his heart?

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